AUGOS - The Automatic Go Player

This is the download site of the go program AUGOS (Automatischer Go-Spieler).
Older versions were developed for the VAX 11 780, the Atari 1040 ST, and the C64.
Here the PC versions are published. The versions AUGOS 4 until AUGOS 6 are freely
downloadable, since Go players are often pupils / students and majorily don't earn
an own income. Nevertheless I don't publish the source code trying to secure
being a nose ahead from other Go programmers and to reserve the right to
possibly develop commercial versions in a couple of years.

Goal

There are no brute-force algorithms to handle the game Go.
Instead, methods of artificial intelligence (AI) are required
to acchieve some success.
With AUGOS I want to prove that my theories on intelligence are correct.

AUGOS 4 for DOS

Augos 4 has been developed in Turbo Pascal and gets its strength
from a built-in Lisp interpreter
(INFLISP)
and an expert system written in Lisp.

Download the file
go.exe
and uncompress it into a new directory. The program AUGOS.EXE is the main program.
Note that the DOS environment variable TEMP must be set. Eventually a line
like SET TEMP=C:\TEMP must be added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Should a runtime error 200 occur on Win32 systems, this might be caused by the
memory management. In this case, create a link (pif-file) in the desktop folder,
and edit the properties with the right mouse key: play a little bit with
the memory settings.

AUGOS 5 for Windows 3.11

Augos 5 has been developed in Borland Delphi 1. It should run under
Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, OS/2, and Wabi.
It was tested on a 486 PC with 50 MHz and 8 MB RAM.

AUGOS 6 for Windows 95, 98, NT

Augos 6 was developed on a Pentium 233 with 32 MB RAM in
Borland Delphi 3.
Download the file
augos6.zip
(1,685,593 bytes) and uncompress it into a new directory.

That's the first version with
SGF support and a language component.
Consider yourself as a beta tester.

AUGOS 7 for Windows XP, Windows Vista. Requires the .NET Framework 2.0,
which is already included in these operating systems.

Please download the file
augos7.zip
(110.592 Bytes), copy it into a new directory and unzip it.

This is a foretaste of the next version of Augos. A download is
only recommended for absolute beginners, since many concepts
of Go are not yet implemented into this version. Board sizes
can be choosen between 2*2 and 21*21.

Augos 7 was developed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 in C#.

Disclaimer

All the AUGOS programs are free downloadable and furthermore in the
state of development. Therefore I take no responsibility for them.
Running them is at your own risk. Especially in the environment of
nuclear power plants, Mars satellites, space stations, and aeroplanes,
AUGOS should better not be started.